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Pro-choice extremism: Opposing public opinion, science and medicine

abortion-protesters-550x374Looking at Gallup over the years, opposition to abortion after six months has never dropped below 80 percent. Even at three months, the numbers are still impressive: Over 60 percent of Americans consistently oppose abortions after the first trimester, and in 2011 they rose to 71 percent.

If these were election results, you’d call it a landslide….

Stanek weekend question: Should pro-lifers embrace economic liberalism?

money-babyNew York Times pro-life columnist Ross Douthat pitched an interesting idea this week:

WHAT happens to a modern society when abortion is restricted? This question is at the heart of the debate over Texas’s new abortion law, which bans abortions after 20 weeks and issues health regulations that could thin the ranks of state abortion clinics, making even first-trimester abortions harder to obtain….

Pro-life blog buzz 5-3-13

by Kelli

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  • At Live Action News, Kristen Hatten discusses “why Kermit Gosnell should be acquitted”:

    I want Kermit Gosnell walking the streets. I want him free because there is nothing he did that is incompatible with a pro-abortion ideology. I want him to serve as a constant reminder that abortion and infanticide are the same thing, and it was the Supreme Court’s idea – supported by around half of the citizens of this country – that some doctors are murderers who get to be free citizens.

Pro-life news brief 2-5-13

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

  • The Ottawa Citizen reports that Norman Barwin, a leading abortion advocate in Canada, has had his medical license revoked for 2 months for medical misconduct after he admitted to inseminating 3 women with the incorrect sperm. Barwin has also agreed to end his fertility practice. Before settling lawsuits, the families believed Barwin may have used his own sperm:

    As part of his plea bargain, Barwin agreed that he inseminated three women with the wrong sperm, but according to his lawyer Karen Hamway, he was unsure how the errors happened….

    “There must have been some type of human error,” she said, as Barwin’s victims listened from the back of the small hearing room. “He cannot explain how the error occurred.”…

    He is past-president of the Canadian Fertility Society, the Planned Parenthood Federation of Canada and Planned Parenthood Ottawa.

Pro-life blog buzz 11-9-12

by Kelli

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  • Wesley J. Smith discusses the reasons why he believes assisted suicide proponents lost their bid to legalize the practice in Massachusetts.
  • Michael New says that despite an anti-life win in the Presidential race, other life issues ballot initiatives fared well on Election Day.

(Prolifer)ations 5-29-12

Thumbnail image for blog buzz.jpgby Kelli

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  • In our newest addition to the blogroll, Kelly Clinger tells of her difficult decision to confess her two past abortions to her young children.

Life Links 3-6-12

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat Jonah Goldberg on Democrats’ dishonesty over Obama’s contraceptive mandate: The Obama campaign insists that “if Mitt Romney and a few Republican senators get their way, employers could be making women’s healthcare decisions for them” and require that women seek a permission slip to obtain birth control. It’s all […]

(Prolifer)ations 12-13-11

by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN, and Kelli We welcome your suggestions for additions to our Top Blogs (see tab on right side of home page)! Email Susie@jillstanek.com. Pro-Life Action League’s Eric Scheidler has an op-ed in USA Today on why most Americans agree with HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’ decision against […]


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